A healthy and adequate diet for the needs of the body is the key to ensuring harmonious somatic, mental, emotional and affective growth and development, which is based on the selfweare and conscious nutrition process, having the main characteristic of being trainable and the education of this process is initially achieved by training correct eating habits in students and, afterwards, by developing principles that are to be respected throughout their lives. for successful nutritional education at primary school level, the school must provide coherent information on the importance of healthy eating, an adequate lifestyle. Key-words: education, nutrition, primary education, health.